Smarter Alarm

Description

Smarter Alarm is a talking alarm clock. Instead of hearing an annoying alarm, you’ll wake up to the voice of a robotic British woman who will read personalized information to you, like "Jarvis" in Iron Man.
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Description

Smarter Alarm is a talking alarm clock. Instead of hearing an annoying alarm, you’ll wake up to the voice of a robotic British woman who will read personalized information to you, like "Jarvis" in Iron Man.

Would you like to know if you'll need to dress warmly today? How about the score to last night's basketball game? Smarter Alarm will read information that's important to you, such as weather, your latest emails, Google calendar appointment, stock prices, birthdays, the morning's headline news, and your own RSS feeds.

Feeds that Smarter Alarm can read to you:

- Current and forecast weather- Stock prices- The day's headline news- Your Facebook friends who have birthdays today- Your Google calendar appointments for the day (requires Android 2.0+)- Your Google tasks- Your latest Gmail emails- Your Facebook events in the next 24 hours- Custom RSS feed- What happened on this day in history- Quotes of the day- Make generic GET and POST requests

Additional feeds/information will be added to Smarter Alarm in future updates, including traffic, sports scores, and much more! Please leave in comments what you would like to see!

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App Details

UPDATED ON: Dec 20, 2012

SIZE 1,677,721

INSTALLATIONS: 5,000 - 10,000

LATEST VERSION: 3.36

REQUIRED ANDROID VERSION: 1.6 and up

Permissions

YOUR LOCATION

coarse (network-based) location

Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate phone location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.

fine (GPS) location

Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the phone, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.

NETWORK COMMUNICATION

full Internet access

Allows an application to create network sockets.

view network state

Allows an application to view the state of all networks.

HARDWARE CONTROLS

control vibrator

Allows the application to control the vibrator.

record audio

Allows application to access the audio record path.

SYSTEM TOOLS

automatically start at boot

Allows an application to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the application to slow down overall performance of the phone by constantly running.

Allows an application to disable the keylock and any associated password security. A legitimate example of this is the phone disabling the keylock when receiving an incoming phone call, then re-enabling the keylock when the call is finished.

YOUR ACCOUNTS

discover known accounts

Allows an application to get the list of accounts known by the phone.

manage the accounts list

Allows an application to perform operations like adding, and removing accounts and deleting their password.

use the authentication credentials of an account

Allows an application to request authentication tokens.

PHONE CALLS

read phone state and identity

Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to, ect.